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Technical excellence
What is the level that your teacher holds your child to? Is the bar held high? If so, your child will find something in life that they can be proud of. If you find that your child is breezing through, maybe there needs to be more of a challenge.
Composition
Something special happens when your child expresses their own musical ideas. Additionally, this is an opportunity where the teacher can reinforce all other areas of teaching. (i.e. “What is that chord you are playing? Wow, it’s fantastic sounding, let’s figure out what it is…”)
Performance
This is too often neglected. I’ve found that with the 7 piece vocal and instrumental group that I lead, we have to have a performance goal. Otherwise, we get sloppy and unmotivated.
Recitals are notorious for embarrassing kids, but they can be fantastic if the teacher has them often and makes a fun event out of them. If your teacher doesn’t hold recitals, try and find another musical performance outlet for your child. Church, school, clubs, all great places for them to feel good about sharing their gift.
One final note:
Here’s the one phrase that will doom your child’s musical career:
“I’m going to let him do this as long as he’s interested…”
Would you take this approach with school?
In my years of teaching, I have found that most normal kids want to quit at one time or another. The disciplined one has to be you. If you are making the choice to give them a musical education, you’ve got to follow through.
Here’s my story-
I had two older brothers, both of which quit piano lessons. They are quite a bit older than me, and when I started lessons, they told my parents, “Please keep him going, we wish that we had”.
I wanted to quit every week! But as a compromise, my parents let me take the summers off.
Now I make my living full time playing music! Can you believe it? Thanks Mom and Dad.
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